LEGO is exploring 3D printing as a potential way for fans to produce their own custom bricks, as a way to stave off all-virtual world building games like Minecraft. The plastic brick company – which ...

Predicting the future of cutting edge technology is popular among pundits because prognosticating is easy – no license required – and there’s very little chance of ever being held accountable (unless ...

On average, Lego produces about 20 billion plastic bricks and building elements every year, and most come from injection molding machines that are so precise that just 18 of every million parts ...

Matthew Yglesias is on vacation. Lego is thriving over its competitors, and 3D printing may have just crossed a critical threshold. Here’s how they’re related. When I was in middle school, a friend ...

Washington - If you had a lucky childhood, tucked away in a corner of your cupboard was a gigantic collection of loose Legos. It was the culmination of dozens of kits and construction sets, collected ...

Instructables member, Gosse Adema has used Lego building blocks combined with Nema 17 stepper motors to create his very own and very awesome Lego 3D printer. The 3D printer was crewed using a number ...

Lego customers may one day be able to make their own bricks and mini-figures using 3-D printers. The global toy giant is looking hard at ways to adapt to a digital economy in which toymakers are ...

With 2400 LEGO bricks and a lot of patience, [Will Gorman] built a LEGO 3D printer. It’s similar to a RepRap or a Makerbot, but instead of extruding plastic, it uses pre-extruded building blocks (aka ...